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Vice President Johnson assumed the presidency in 1963, after President Kennedy was assassinated. The following year, Johnson was elected to the presidency in a landslide, winning the largest share of the popular vote for the Democratic Party in history, and the highest for any candidate since the advent of widespread popular elections in the 1820s.
The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which the vice president of the United States and other officers of the United States federal government assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency (or the office itself, in the instance of succession by the vice president) upon an elected president's death, resignation, removal from office, or incapacity.
Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice president for 1,036 days when he succeeded to the presidency.
McKinley initially appeared to be recovering, but took a turn for the worse on September 13 as his wounds became gangrenous, and died early the next morning; Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him. Roosevelt was hiking near the top of Mt. Marcy, in New York's Adirondack region, when a runner located him to convey the news. [61]
Resigned to become vice president Minnesota: Hubert Humphrey: 1949–1964 Resigned to become vice president 1971–1978 Served after being vice president. Died in office Walter Mondale: 1964–1976 Resigned to become vice president Missouri: Harry S. Truman: 1935–1945 Resigned to become vice president New York: Aaron Burr: 1791–1797 Martin ...
Vice President Humphrey at a meeting in the Oval Office, c. June 21, 1965. Humphrey took office on January 20, 1965, [142] ending the 14-month vacancy of the vice president of the United States, which had remained empty when then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963 ...
Died 3 years, 7 months and 26 days into term 35: Lyndon B. Johnson: 1,036: 37th • January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 [g] John F. Kennedy: Succeeded to presidency 2 years, 10 months and 2 days into term 36: Henry Wilson: 993: 18th • March 4, 1873 – November 22, 1875 [d] Ulysses S. Grant: Died 2 years, 8 months and 18 days into term 37 ...
After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson ascended to the presidency. [1] As the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution had not yet been passed, there was no process for filling the office of vice president until the next post-election inauguration, and Speaker of the House John William McCormack was next-in-line for the ...